The Harmony Of Reason

Author : Thomas Hofweber
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198823636

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Idealism and the Harmony of Thought and Reality by Thomas Hofweber Pdf

Do human beings have a special and distinguished place in reality? In Idealism and the Harmony of Thought and Reality Thomas Hofweber contends that they do. We are special since there is an intimate connection between our human minds and reality itself. This book defends a form of idealism which holds that our human minds constrain, but do not construct, reality as the totality of facts. Reality as the totality of facts is thus not independent of our minds, and our minds play a metaphysically special role in all of reality. But reality as the totality of things is taken to be completely independent of us. Hofweber's proposed form of conceptual idealism is formulated via the notion of a harmony between our minds and reality. This harmony is defended through considerations in the philosophy of language. How can one possibly defend a metaphysical thesis like idealism from considerations about our own representation? A key step in the book's argument is to consider a special class of concepts--inescapable concepts--which we cannot rationally replace with different ones. This leads to a new approach for making progress in metaphysics--immanent metaphysics--which is broadly neo-Kantian in spirit.

Author : Francis X. J.. Coleman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Aesthetics, German
ISBN : 0783721498

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The Harmony of Reason by Francis X. J.. Coleman Pdf

Author : William Bates
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1688
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0022139576

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The Harmony of the Divine Attributes, in the Contrivance and Accomplishment of Man's Redemption by the Lord Jesus Christ ... The Third Edition by William Bates Pdf

Author : Chenyang Li
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134600410

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The Confucian Philosophy of Harmony by Chenyang Li Pdf

Harmony is a concept essential to Confucianism and to the way of life of past and present people in East Asia. Integrating methods of textual exegesis, historical investigation, comparative analysis, and philosophical argumentation, this book presents a comprehensive treatment of the Confucian philosophy of harmony. The book traces the roots of the concept to antiquity, examines its subsequent development, and explicates its theoretical and practical significance for the contemporary world. It argues that, contrary to a common view in the West, Confucian harmony is not mere agreement but has to be achieved and maintained with creative tension. Under the influence of a Weberian reading of Confucianism as "adjustment" to a world with an underlying fixed cosmic order, Confucian harmony has been systematically misinterpreted in the West as presupposing an invariable grand scheme of things that pre-exists in the world to which humanity has to conform. The book shows that Confucian harmony is a dynamic, generative process, which seeks to balance and reconcile differences and conflicts through creativity. Illuminating one of the most important concepts in Chinese philosophy and intellectual history, this book is of interest to students of Chinese studies, history and philosophy in general and eastern philosophy in particular.

Author : William Bates
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1831
Category : Salvation
ISBN : NYPL:33433068243793

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The Harmony of the Divine Attributes in the Contrivance and Accomplishment of Man's Redemption by William Bates Pdf

Author : Walter HARTE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1737
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0019766673

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The Union and Harmony of Reason Morality and Revealed Religion. A Sermon [on John Xiv. 1] Preach'd Before the University of Oxford ... Feb 27, 1736-7 by Walter HARTE Pdf

Author : Orestes Augustus Brownson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Literature
ISBN : UOM:39015036782152

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The Works of Orestes A. Brownson: Explanations and index by Orestes Augustus Brownson Pdf

Author : Penelope Frederica Fitzgerald
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Causation
ISBN : UCAL:$B44022

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A Treatise on the Principle of Sufficient Reason by Penelope Frederica Fitzgerald Pdf

Author : Evan Lewis (B.A., F.R.G.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000610117

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Independency: a Deduction from the Laws of the Universe by Evan Lewis (B.A., F.R.G.S.) Pdf

Author : Tsong Khapa
Publisher : Library of Tibetan Works and Archives
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9788186470411

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The Harmony of Emptiness and Dependent-Arising by Tsong Khapa Pdf

The Harmony of Emptiness and Dependent-Arising is a commentary to Tsong Khapa’s The Essence of Eloquent Speech, Praise to the Buddha for Teaching Profound Dependent-Arising. The subject of the work concerns two important themes of Buddhist philosophy: emptiness and dependent-arising. All schools of Buddhism expound theories of emptiness and dependent-arising, but their interpreptations vary greatly and are even contradictory. Here Ven. Lobsang Gyatso, very skilfully explains these two theories through logical analysis combined with simple and wonderful illustrations. Late Ven. Lobsang Gyatso was born in Kham province, Tibet, in 1928 and educated at Drepung Monastic University. He escaped from Tibet in 1959 and was one of the first trained Tibetan teachers in exile and was also a member of the Tibetan Textbook Committee of Council for Tibetan Education. In 1973, with the blessing of H. H. the Dalai lama, he founded the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics in Dharamsala. He has toured and lectured in many countries of the world, and has authored many books and articles. Above all, he is a meditation master, who lives his life according to the Buddhist philosophy of wisdom and compassion.

Author : David Dean Commins
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Islam
ISBN : 9780195061031

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Islamic Reform by David Dean Commins Pdf

This book examines Syria's religious, intellectual, and political history during the period of transformation before World War I. Focusing on an attempt to reform Islamic belief and practice at the turn of the century, Commins shows how the reformers used debates over the religious law of Islam to advance their visions of a progressive Islamic state. Based on a wide variety of previously unpublished sources, the book will shed new light on a period that is of considerable importance for the modern history of the Middle East. -- Publisher description.

Author : Jon Solomon
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004351165

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Ptolemy Harmonics by Jon Solomon Pdf

Ptolemy's comprehensive treatises on astronomy and geography were influential for nearly two millennia. Equally influential was his treatise on harmonics, the ancient science which combined and brought to completion the study of philosophy and science. This volume offers a comprehensive English translation and commentary of Ptolemy's Harmonics. The treatise begins with Ptolemy's study of pitches and intervals, for which he extracts both an idealized musical scale and a new acoustical tool. After discussing modulation, he expands his horizons by applying musical intervals to the human soul and celestial bodies, ultimately describing a cosmic harmony. The English translation faithfully reproduces Ptolemy's style and includes all the charts surviving in the manuscript tradition. The commentary offers a full exegesis of the text, loci paralleli, and citations of modern scholarly sources.

Author : Zong Woo Geem
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-12
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783642001840

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Music-Inspired Harmony Search Algorithm by Zong Woo Geem Pdf

Calculus has been used in solving many scientific and engineering problems. For optimization problems, however, the differential calculus technique sometimes has a drawback when the objective function is step-wise, discontinuous, or multi-modal, or when decision variables are discrete rather than continuous. Thus, researchers have recently turned their interests into metaheuristic algorithms that have been inspired by natural phenomena such as evolution, animal behavior, or metallic annealing. This book especially focuses on a music-inspired metaheuristic algorithm, harmony search. Interestingly, there exists an analogy between music and optimization: each musical instrument corresponds to each decision variable; musical note corresponds to variable value; and harmony corresponds to solution vector. Just like musicians in Jazz improvisation play notes randomly or based on experiences in order to find fantastic harmony, variables in the harmony search algorithm have random values or previously-memorized good values in order to find optimal solution.

Author : Walter Harte
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 135871228X

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The Union and Harmony of Reason, Morality, and Revealed Religion, a Sermon by Walter Harte Pdf

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Author : Chenyang Li,Professor of Philosophy Chenyang Li,Dascha Düring,Postdoctoral Research Fellow Dascha Düring
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-03-29
Category : Concord
ISBN : 9780197598481

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The Virtue of Harmony by Chenyang Li,Professor of Philosophy Chenyang Li,Dascha Düring,Postdoctoral Research Fellow Dascha Düring Pdf

In a time marked by profound polarisation, this volume draws our attention to a virtue that is of key importance in many non-Western cultures but is largely neglected in modern Western thought: the virtue of harmony. The book comprises 13 chapters that examine harmony from a particular cultural or disciplinary perspective. A broad variety of cultural traditions are represented, including the Confucian, Daoist, Buddhist, Judaist, Greek, Christian, Islamic, African, and Native American traditions, as well as different disciplinary approaches, such as philosophy, religious studies, linguistics, psychology, and political theory. This book is suitable for general readers, students, as well as researchers interested in this flourishing topic of research.